Auditioning Internal Programs; Selecting Program Banks - Alesis QS6 Reference Manual

Chapter 2: Your First Session With The QS6
The current mode (MIX) is displayed in the top-left corner, followed by the current
Bank (PRESET1) and the current Mix number (00). The Mix's name (Piano&Pad)
appears on the lower line of the display and the active MIDI channels (1 and 2) are
shown at the bottom right. In a Mix that uses all 16 MIDI channels (such as the Mixes
found in the General MIDI Bank), the display would look something like this:
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Press the [PROGRAM] button to select Program Play Mode.
You can now play the QS6 keyboard; the Program will be whatever was selected
when last in Program mode (Program number 00 –127).
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Select a Program using either of these methods:
• Use the Group buttons ([00/PIANO], [10/CHROMATIC], etc.) to select a
Program Group, then use the [0] – [9] buttons to select a Program within the
Group.
The selected Group determines the fensdigit of the selected Program's
number. Example: Selecting the [60/BRASS] Group lets you select Programs
60 through 69. Selecting the [100/SYNTH 3] Group lets you select Programs
100 through 109.
• Use the [s VALUE] and [VALUE t] buttons to step forwards and backwards
through all the Programs one at a time.
When in Program Play Mode and the [120/DRUMS/PERC] Group is selected, the [8]
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and [9] buttons will not function, since Programs only go from 00 to 127 .
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The QS6 provides five internal Banks containing 128 Programs in each (and 100
Mixes each, but we'll get to Mixes in a moment). The currently selected Bank will be
shown in the upper line of the display, just above the currently selected Program's
name.
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User and Preset Banks are described in detail in Chapter 4.
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While in Program Play Mode, the QS6 can transmit and receive information on any
single MIDI channel of the 16 available channels. The currently selected channel
appears in the bottom-right corner of the display.
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Current Bank
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